| What was the start of your inter-laboratory
training? |
| Koga |
I studied autonomous
learning and control of trailer platforms and demonstrated
my study at open campus. Dr. Furukawa saw that demonstration
and got in touch with me, then, we talked about how
it would be interesting if my study focused on "mnSOM."
This is what to join the inter-laboratory training.
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| Nishida |
In my case,
I studied an autonomously-behaving system with an underwater
robot recognizing the surrounding environment by utilizing
simple "SOM." When I got stuck, I heard about
the "mnSOM" study at Dr. Furukawa's laboratory
from Dr, Ishii. That was the start. |
| So, both of you went to study "mnSOM". |
| Koga |
Yes. Up to that
time, Dr. Furukawa, Mr. Nishida, and I had studied the
algorism, "SOM," in different ways and used
it for study. Thus we had different viewpoints about
"SOM" itself. In the inter-laboratory training,
I noticed "Oh, I should see things closely from
this side", and I could clearly see the things
that had been foggy to me. |
| Nishida |
I realized that
it's important to see and hear the ideas of people who
have a different background. There were students coming
from other laboratories for the inter-laboratory training,
the members who had studied "mnSOM" at Dr.
Furukawa's laboratory, and Dr, Furukawa. It was really
fruitful for me to study by sharing many people's findings.
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| Would you please tell some advantages
of the inter-laboratory training to your junior fellows? |
| Koga |
You can see
your study from another side, and you can get a broad
view of things. I think it's not so important if the
3 months of inter-laboratory training is directly useful
or not, but you can get much more. I'd like to strongly
recommend this training to young fellows studying at
Dr. Yamakawa's laboratory. |
| Nishida |
When you study
something, studying by yourself for 3 months is no match
for the 3 months of inter-laboratory training. I think
people may have various purposes such as simply "I'd
like to study something other than your major subject,
or "I want to learn this algorithm." |
| Koga |
I'd like to
say don't hesitate and have the courage to go. Before
everything, just go for it, because it's a good opportunity.
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